Example sentences of "ask [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham .
2 He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand .
3 Maxine asked me a number of the usual questions , and I answered each one in turn hoping to set her mind at rest .
4 And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity .
5 ‘ I asked you a question , you asked me a question , but I did n't leap out of nowhere and start a fight , did I ?
6 Then the King asked me a large number of questions .
7 They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’
8 ‘ Man asked me a question , did n't he ?
9 Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer .
10 He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run .
11 The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of specific questions .
12 My right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West asked me a number of specific questions .
13 They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them .
14 you asked me a question .
15 You asked me a question I gave an answer .
16 He asked me a lot of questions about myself — what I wanted to do with my life , that sort of thing …
17 And it was then she finally asked me a question that has bothered her for twenty years .
18 It , it was one of those chips and ju they just asked me a minute .
19 When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias .
20 I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way .
21 People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends .
22 It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour .
23 Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England .
24 Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep .
25 My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ?
26 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
27 It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level .
28 I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it .
29 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
30 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
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